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Priorities outlined during Town Hall meeting

Times Observer photo by Josh Cotton Thursday’s Warren County Commissioners town hall turned into, right, Jeff Eggleston and Ben Kafferlin, meeting with the Pleasant Township supervisors including, at left, Bucky Knapp and Andy Brooks.

The Warren County Commissioners’ Town Hall meeting Thursday was really a mano-a-mano with the Pleasant Township supervisors.

The three supervisors were the sole people in attendance for the session, but the commissioners still outlined priorities and talked issues with the municipal officials.

Commissioner Ben Kafferlin said the commissioner’s approach this year is to so focus “on a few select things.”

That means he’s focused on policy and procedure development while Commissioners Tricia Durbin and Jeff Eggleston are focused on broadband and marketing and redevelopment issues, respectively.

“(There is) lots of institutional knowledge at the courthouse,” Kafferlin said, which serves as the basis for the policy and procedure effort.

Eggleston said he’s working with the county Redevelopment Authority to pursue the idea of a landbank and is also hoping to focus redevelopment initiatives on a “single area of focus” — the Kinzua Beach, Jakes Rocks “area out 59.”

He said he and County Planner Dan Glotz are working on a plan with a glass recycler out of Erie to bring both a commercial and residential glass recycling program to the county.

Eggleston said the goal is to start something and then potentially expand. He added that he’d prefer to find a “community element” to handle the program rather than it being a government responsibility.

He also said that the county is launching a new website on Aug. 23, telling the supervisors that CARES Act funding was used to hire a developer that just builds government website. An area of focus was additional emergency management functions.

Kafferlin said he’s open to hearing about potential projects to find with the county’s American Rescue Plan funding. A sewer project came up that might be considered in Pleasant while Kafferlin said the county has received requests from the city regarding funding for a boat launch and Youngsville for water and sewer work.

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